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A little under a year later, it seems that what he reported was true. No it doesn't; it merely seems that the outcome of the conspiracy he fabricated last year
by matthewmacleod 6y ago
A little under a year later, it seems that what he reported was true.
No it doesn't; it merely seems that the outcome of the conspiracy he fabricated last year is similar to the possible outcome of something that might happen in the future. Broken clocks etc.
- mjw1007 6y agoMurray often claims to be reporting something he was told by an insider at the Foreign Office. I'm not sure whether in general to believe him. In this case I'm convinced, from what we know now, that he was telling the truth: that the government was planning, at the time the backstop was negotiated, for how to break it, and that this was unusual enough for Foreign Office legal advisers to be distinctly unhappy about it. I don't think this demonstrates that every time he claims he's reporting insider information he's telling the truth. But it does weigh in the direction of treating him as a truth-teller. It's the nearest thing we can get in this sort of situation to gaining confidence by verifying a theory's prediction experimentally.